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Ten students were awarded the AICPA’s John L. Carey Scholarship,
which is given to students from liberal arts and other nontraditional
business backgrounds to pursue graduate accounting degrees and become CPAs.

The recipients of the 2012–2013 scholarships are:

Philip Casey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Oliver Chase, University of Vermont

Sean Escoffery,
University of Texas at Austin

Hannah Franklin, University
of Texas at Austin

Rebecca Hu, University of Southern
California

Jennifer Millhouse, University of Texas at
Austin

Kelsey Short, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill

Rebecca Stone, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee

Jacob Summerhays, College of William and Mary, Virginia

Lauren VanDyke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Each recipient receives $5,000 to cover tuition and other
educational expenses. The scholarship is funded by an endowment of the
AICPA Foundation in honor of John L. Carey, a retired administrative
vice president and executive director of the Institute and a former
editor and publisher of the JofA. Throughout his career, Carey made it
a priority to encourage outstanding students to become CPAs.

The application deadline for the 2013–2014 scholarship is April 1,
2013. Applicants must be full-time, graduate-level students for the
upcoming academic year. More information is available at aicpa.org/scholarships.

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